There are some food mashups out there which are certainly worth doing.
The cronut (croissant and doughnut hybrid), pizza waffles and even sushi burgers are all pretty incredible in their own way.
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But have any of you ever thought ‘this cake needs some salad in it’? No, we haven’t either, but it’s quickly becoming a new craze in you guessed it, Japan.
We understand that they’re pretty and that, but why? Why would you do this to us?
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They are the work of Japanese food stylist and designer, Misuki Moriyasu, who sells them from her new cafe Vegedeco, in Nagoya.
She invented the cakes while working at another restaurant, as a way to make vegetables a bit more nice to eat.
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It kind of reminds us of when you’re a kid and your mum tried to sneak nasty veg into your meals. You’re not fooling us guys, we know what you are.
Apparently her customers had a pretty decent response to them, so that’s when she decided to open a separate cafe to sell them.
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Just in case you were wondering how these bizarre creations are made, she blends whole vegetables with soybean flour to create a sponge. Er, delicious?
Barely any sugar is added and for the icing she mixes vegetables with cream cheese or tofu. This isn’t sounding great is it?
The result is a low-carb, gluten-free cake which counts as one of your five a day. Though I feel that if you wanted to convince me to eat it, it would have to be all of my five-a-day to make it worth my while.
It just doesn’t do it for us, sorry (not sorry).
